Pilgrim Days: From the Vietnam War to Troop Commander, 22 Special Air Service Regiment, MacKenzie Alistair

In a career spanning 30 years, MacKenzie served uniquely with the New Zealand Army in Vietnam, the British Parachute Regiment, the British Special Air Service, the South African Defence Forces famed ParaBats, the Sultan of Omans Special Forces and a host of private security agencies and defence contractors, MacKenzie lived the soldiers life to full as hes journeyed the the Golden Road to Samarkand.

This extraordinary all new work from the author of Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd Special Air Service Regiment (SAS), vividly documents in a detail that stuns, the experience of infantry combat in Vietnam, life with the Paras, the tempo of selection for UK Special Forces, covert SAS operations in South Armagh and SAS Counter Terrorist training on the UK mainland, vehicle mounted Pathfinder Brigade insertions into Angola and maritime counter-terrorism work in Oman.

This is a military CV like no other and one that makes for the most compelling of reading, listing as it does, a veritable Whos Who of modern military history featuring personalities featuring the likes of Cedric Delves, Arthur Denaro, Jan Breytenbach, Mike Jackson, Peter McAleese, Fred Marafono and more.